Originally posted by Area50:RSAF got AWACS meh? =.="
U are living in the dark.
.... People here dont know.... Dont need say til like that la....
Originally posted by bloodsucker:It wasnt the pilot who shot down the heli. It was his WSO. There were quite a few Hinds at that time dropping troops. When one of it landed to drop its troops, his wso took it out just after it took off. Taking it down while it is flying with a lgb would be nearly impossible otherwise.
Oh yeah... its the WSO that guides the A2G weapons in the Mud Hen...
Yeah, agreed. The helo would be moving too fast normally. Well, if not an LGB, a Maverick can take down a non-manuevering helo... Heh!
Originally posted by bloodsucker:It wasnt the pilot who shot down the heli. It was his WSO. There were quite a few Hinds at that time dropping troops. When one of it landed to drop its troops, his wso took it out just after it took off. Taking it down while it is flying with a lgb would be nearly impossible otherwise.
according to wiki, the heli was taken out 240m from ground, an estimated height by special forces on the ground. i found out from a blog that a 40 storey HDB flat is about 150m from the ground so that means, the hind was about 100m higher than a 40 storey flat.
i reckon that the helicopter must have moved a bit before reaching the height of 240m because i cant reason how tactical is it for the pilot to make a vertical ascent of 240m on the spot in a combat situation of a desert with plenty of clearing. futhermore, it is more than 30 seconds from the time the F-15 picked out the hind unloading it's troops to the time the LGB struck the target. i guess that the hind must have moved, it could be flying before the impact.
Its quite safe to say that the hind could not have been flying at tactical airspeed or the LGB would have no chance of hitting it. The hind could have been holding station to provide close air support fire for its troops when it was picked up by the Mudhen. . Maybe the WSO decided to hit it with an LGB in order not to alert it to its presence. The hind not being a very sophisticated chopper would probably not have a laser warning system installed. Rudimentory RWRs would be available, hence the Mudhen's fire control radar would have tripped it.
Originally posted by Area50:.... People here dont know.... Dont need say til like that la....
or just you....